[Liverpool] Biggest official move into Open Source/Free Software? Ever?

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 29/03/12 07:00, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 09:20 +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
>
>> The city of Munich has mandated a switch to Linux.
>
> I just saw this post on slashdot which seems timely:
>
> "Mayor Ude reported today that the city of Munich has saved €4 million
> so far (Google translation of German original) by switching its IT
> infrastructure from Windows NT and Office to Linux and OpenOffice. At
> the same time, the number of trouble tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per
> month. Savings were €2.8M from software licensing and €1.2M from
> hardware because demands are lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux
>
>
> Sweet :-)

That's certainly interesting. Thanks for that. I've seen various remarks 
on the Net that although various bodies announced moves to Open Source 
software at one time or another - there is little information as to what 
happened after - in terms of savings, or if the project was actually 
completed.